Vet­er­an trade union­ist Ce­cil Paul, a for­mer First Vice Pres­i­dent of the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU), died on Tues­day fol­low­ing a short ill­ness.

The U.S. gov­ern­ment has de­clared a drought dis­as­ter in the U.S. Vir­gin Is­lands as dry con­di­tions per­sist.

A planned protest by the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) out­side TSTT House in Port of Spain was can­celled at the last minute on Fri­day morn­ing af­ter po­lice con­tact­ed the union to with­draw per­mis­sion for the demon­stra­tion.

Par­ents of pupils at the San Fer­nan­do Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist Pri­ma­ry School are call­ing for the Board and the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion to in­di­cate what will hap­pen to their stu­dents when they go back to school in the new term, as pro­posed school re­pairs have not even start­ed.

Pan on D’Av­enue XII has been can­celled, with or­gan­is­ers say­ing they could not se­cure enough fund­ing and in­fra­struc­ture to stage the an­nu­al Steel­pan cel­e­bra­tion along Ari­api­ta Av­enue.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is link­ing high lev­els of ex­am­i­na­tion ab­sen­teeism among CSEC and CAPE stu­dents to broad­er so­cio-emo­tion­al chal­lenges, warn­ing that the cri­sis is be­ing com­pound­ed by a crip­pled Stu­dent Sup­port Ser­vices Di­vi­sion (SSSD).

A male pas­sen­ger ar­riv­ing at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port from New York has been charged af­ter Cus­toms of­fi­cers al­leged­ly found a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion in his pos­ses­sion.

A 25-year-old St Anns welder is the coun­try’s lat­est mur­der vic­tim as he was gunned down by men wear­ing po­lice caps and tac­ti­cal gear on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has con­firmed that this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade will pro­ceed as planned de­spite a se­ries of bomb threats that placed se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies across Trinidad and To­ba­go on high alert on Wednes­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing cit­i­zens to re­main calm and car­ry on with their dai­ly ac­tiv­i­ties, fol­low­ing a wave of bomb threats re­port­ed across Trinidad and To­ba­go on Wednes­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed that na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns were be­hind Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro’s re­cent emer­gency leave but has de­clined to dis­close what those con­cerns were, even as ques­tions con­tin­ue over his sud­den de­par­ture from the coun­try dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

Dozens of cur­rent and for­mer par­lia­men­tar­i­ans, in­clud­ing Cab­i­net min­is­ters, Op­po­si­tion MPs and in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors, have been named by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion for fail­ing to file de­c­la­ra­tions of their in­come, as­sets, li­a­bil­i­ties and reg­is­tra­ble in­ter­ests.